Upstart NuoDB paints picture of database nirvana for the cloud era

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

The audacity of a database startup: NewSQL vendor NuoDB dares to propose an update to E.F. Codd’s 12 rules of relational databases, the blueprint for SQL databases for decades. NewSQL database startup NuoDB likes to think big. This week as it makes its scalable database generally available, it is also pitching an update to database guru Edgar F. Codd’s 12 rules of relational databases for the age of cloud computing. It’s a move that is bound to raise eyebrows since Codd, an IBM computer scientist who defined the relational database model, is viewed as a god in that arena.

NuoDB CEO Barry Morris (pictured above) seems girded for blowback.”The rules from Codd are intended to be obvious. If [the new rules] were strange or oriented around a particular product, they’d be self-serving, but they’re not. We want to say: ‘let’s stop screwing around with incremental database improvements. If you were to design your own requirements for an ideal 21st century database, what would they be?’ This is what we came up with. What’s missing? We want the conversation.”…

Cambridge, Mass.-based NuoDB was founded by Jim Starkey, a database pioneer who piloted Digital Equipment Corp.’s RdB database (now part of Oracle) and Interbase (acquired by Borland) and is responsible for many object database innovations. He also founded Netrastructure which was acquired by MySQL, the popular open-source database, that is now also owned by Oracle (sorcl). He is now listed as founder and senior advisor to NuoDB. He also used to be CTO…

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